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What is bespoke authentication?



Uhm..like a bespoke tailor and not off-the-peg, i.e. the authentication was written uniquely by us, for us.

It is a MySQL database of user names, passwords, time restrictions and so-on. There are a number of PHP scripts to manage the DB and to query it as an authenticator for Squid.

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One other question would be on your PIX are you doing filter url except ip.of.TS ?



Not too sure what you mean, URL filter is applied to all requests, direct internet access is blocked for everything except the proxy.

That's a simplified view as we have a number of divisions with different policies and requirements, but that's the basic structure.